Do You Call that Terrorism?

9/11 is what I would call low intensity: not very big and not very frequent.

There are parts of the world which have suffered much more intensive terrorist campaigns.

Let’s put this into perspective.

Imagine a single bombing attack which killed 5800 Americans including 1200 children and 1200 teenagers and left 44,000 injured, many of them severely. That would leave quite a scar on the national psyche: the anniversary of 15th August would be marked by much weeping every year.

Or imagine that, size for size, America suffered not just one attack of the size of 9/11, but seven such attacks. Every year.

Imagine that America suffered seven or eight attacks of the size of 9/11 every year for 32 years. A terrorist campaign that left 705,000 Americans dead.